UNA CATENA DI MORTI MISTERIOSE Intorno agli anni novanta, a Sotoba, un remoto villaggio di milletrecento anime immerso nelle montagne del Giappone, vengono trovati i cadaveri di tre abitanti del posto morti in condizioni insolite, ma che il dottore Toshio Ozaki classifica come vittime di una misteriosa epidemia. Nello stesso momento, un giovane di nome Natsuno Yuki si trasferisce con la sua famiglia proprio in quel villaggio e fa la conoscenza di Megumi Shimizu, una ragazza della sua stessa età. Da quel momento, si aprirà il sipario su una serie di eventi sempre più grotteschi e terrificanti, che porteranno gli abitanti del villaggio ad affrontare una spaventosa minaccia: possibile che siano stati presi di mira dai vampiri? E’ con queste premesse che si presenta in edicola questo nuovo manga dalle tinte forti, disegnato dalle abili mani di Ryu Fujisaki e scritto da Fuyumi Ono, già autrice del romanzo omonimo, best seller in Giappone e dichiaratamente ispirato al romanzo “Salem’s Lot” di Stephen King.

Too many popular histories seek to establish heroes, pioneers and martyrs but as Huw Lemmey and Ben Miller argue, the past is filled with queer people whose sexualities and dastardly deeds have been overlooked. We all remember Oscar Wilde, but who speaks for Bosie? What about those ‘bad gays’ whose unexemplary lives reveals more than we might expect? Part revisionist history, part historical biography and based on the hugely popular podcast series, Bad Gays subverts the notion of gay icons and queer heroes and asks what we can learn about LGBTQ history, sexuality and identity through its villains and baddies. From the Emperor Hadrian to notorious gangster Ronnie Kray, the authors excavate the buried history of queer lives. This includes fascist thugs, famous artists, austere puritans and debauched bon viveurs, imperialists, G-men and architects. Together these amazing life stories expand and challenge the mainstream assumptions of sexual identity. They show that homosexuality itself was an idea that emerged in the nineteenth century and that its interpretation has been central to major historical moments of conflict from the ruptures of Weimar Republic to red-baiting in Cold War America. Amusing, disturbing and fascinating, Bad Gays puts centre stage the queer villains and evil twinks in history.

The Silmarillion is an account of the Elder Days, of the First Age of Tolkien’s world. It is the ancient drama to which the characters in The Lord of the Rings look back, and in whose events some of them such as Elrond and Galadriel took part. The tales of The Silmarillion are set in an age when Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in Middle-Earth, and the High Elves made war upon him for the recovery of the Silmarils, the jewels containing the pure light of Valinor.